tuxroastMar 8
Broadwaybabyto

We could end homelessness and hunger tomorrow if we wanted to.

We could agree that everyone should be fed and housed.

We could admit that being disabled, poor, homeless or unemployed is not a moral failing.

That society would be better off if everyone’s basic needs were met.

Mar 8 at 5:14amWeb
Show threadDanish AkhtarMar 8

@broadwaybabyto

People lack the empathy and willpower to make change.

Show threadFreediverXMar 8
@danish_akhtar7 @broadwaybabyto
This isn’t “the people’s” fault. Humanity is being destroyed by a tiny minority of depraved sociopathic billionaires and their enablers (across party lines).
Show threadDanish AkhtarMar 8

@freediverx @broadwaybabyto

Who made them billionaire in the first place? Corrupt politician who don't tax them enough.

Those politicians give them impunity and common people who buys products from those heartless billionaires?

Show threadFreediverXMar 8

@danish_akhtar7 @broadwaybabyto
I reject any attempts to blame the people for the crimes of capitalism just as I reject attempts to blame them for the destruction of our environment.

Capitalism was a temporary improvement over feudalism with a predictable long term outcome. We need the next evolution along the lines of socialism.

Show threadDanish AkhtarMar 8

@freediverx @broadwaybabyto

True.

There is an old saying: "Will people take their money to their graves?"

This was meant to encourage people to give money to the poor, feed hungry people, and give charity.

But greedy capitalists think that free healthcare, feeding the hungry, and charity are an unnecessary burden on the economy.

Show threadFahri Reza 🍉Mar 8
@broadwaybabyto end capitalism
Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Mar 8

@broadwaybabyto

WE do want to do these things. Almost 8 billion of us agree it would make sense, and be great.

A few thousand people are hogging all the money, have grabbed all the decision making positions, and are ruining everything for us.

Refuse to do what they want. Do good things instead. Humanity is better than those monsters.

Show threadצבי הנינג'ה عزيز النينجاMar 8

@broadwaybabyto
I'd settle for less:

* We could stop abducting and torturing people for no reason.

* We could stop bombing children.

We could also do nice things, but let's start by not being minions to the #EpsteinicFury

Show threadAral BalkanMar 8
@broadwaybabyto But we got innocent civilians to bomb.
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeMar 8
@broadwaybabyto who is the "we" here?
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Mar 9
@fishidwardrobe @broadwaybabyto Yeah, that suggests power is equally distributed. But it isn't.
Show threadzbrandoMar 8
@broadwaybabyto But then we couldn't have billionaires and wars, how inconvenient!
Show threadFreediverXMar 8
@broadwaybabyto
And unironically this would also be better for business. Demand side, bottom-up economic policy redistributes wealth where it’s most needed and that wealth will be immediately injected back into the economy as people can afford to buy products and services.
Show threadunqualifiedtechbrosMar 8
@broadwaybabyto
It could be fixed today. America's current elite class (age 60s-90s), were raised on John B. Watson's theories. This was the jet fuel, for supporting current western inequality.
Show threadunqualifiedtechbrosMar 8
@broadwaybabyto
Watson preached that a good mother should never hug, kiss, or hold her child — that physical affection was a sentimental poison that bred weakness and dependency. His theory saturated mid-century American life, endorsed by pediatricians, hospitals, and parenting manuals read by millions of middle and upper-class families from the 1920s through the 1940s. In a bitter epilogue, Watson died an isolated recluse who burned his own life's work, while one
Show threadunqualifiedtechbrosMar 8
son took his own life and the other spent decades in therapy undoing the damage his father had scientifically inflicted on him. @broadwaybabyto
Show threadsharifgazaMar 8
@broadwaybabyto please help 🙏
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Mar 9
@broadwaybabyto The wrong people are in government. They're beholden to money interests, not to humane interests. How did this happen? How do we undo it?